different between administrator vs sovereign

See Wiktionary:Administrators for administrators within Wiktionary.

English

Alternative forms

• administratour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administr?tor (literally “he that is near to attend”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?e?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?e?t?/

Noun

administrator (plural administrators)

1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
2. (law) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
3. (computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

Synonyms

• (one who administers affairs): chief, head, head man, controller, comptroller, foreman, organizer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor
• admin

Derived terms

• co-administrator

Related terms

• administer
• administration
• administrative

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t.mi.ni?stra?.t?r/, /??t.mi.n?s?tra?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?nis?tra?tor
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

administrator m (plural administratoren)

1. administrator, manager (person in an administrative capacity)
2. (Roman Catholicism) ecclesiastical administrator, a steward of a bishop

Related terms

• administrateur
• administratie
• administratief
• administreren

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch administrator (“administrator”), from Latin administrator (“administrator”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at?min?strat?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?nis?tra?tor

Noun

administrator (first-person possessive administratorku, second-person possessive administratormu, third-person possessive administratornya)

1. (government, management) administrator.

Alternative forms

• administratur (nonstandard)

Related terms

Further reading

• “administrator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From administr? (“attend upon, assist”), from ad- (“to”) +? ministr? (“attend, manage”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis?tra?.tor/, [äd?m?n?s??t??ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis?tra.tor/, [?d?minis?t????t??r]

Noun

administr?tor m (genitive administr?t?ris); third declension

1. manager, conductor, administrator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• administr?t?rius

Related terms

• administer
• administr?ti?
• administr?t?vus
• administr?

Descendants

• Catalan: administrador
• English: administrator
• Hungarian: adminisztrátor
• Portuguese: administrador
• Russian: ?????????????? m (administrátor)
• Spanish: administrador

References

• administrator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administrator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administrator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

administrator m

1. vocative singular form of administrators

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorer, definite plural administratorene)

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorar, definite plural administratorane)

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.m?i.?i?stra.t?r/

Noun

administrator m pers (feminine administratorka)

1. administrator

Declension

Further reading

• administrator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French administrateur, Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis.tra?tor/

Noun

administrator m (plural administratori, feminine equivalent administratoare)

1. administrator

Declension

Synonyms

• intendent

Derived terms

• administrator delegat

Related terms

• administra
• administrabil
• administrare
• administrat
• administrativ
• administra?ie

References

• administrator in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /admin?stra?tor/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?ni?stra?tor

Noun

adminìstr?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????????)

1. administrator

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• soveraign, soveraigne (archaic)
• sovran (archaic)
• sovring (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English sovereyn, from Old French soverain (whence also modern French souverain), from Vulgar Latin *super?nus (compare Italian sovrano, Spanish soberano) from Latin super (“above”). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Doublet of soprano, from the same Latin root via Italian. See also suzerain, foreign.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?v.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?v(?)??n/
• Hyphenation: sov?e?reign

Adjective

sovereign (comparative more sovereign, superlative most sovereign)

1. Exercising power of rule.

2. Exceptional in quality.

3. (now rare, pharmacology) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze […]

   • a sovereign remedy

   • Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.

4. Having supreme, ultimate power.

   Gentlemen, may I introduce the Sovereign, Her Royal Highness, and Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Elizabeth of Vicron.
5. Princely; royal.
   • c1610, William Shakespeare, A Winters Tale, V.i:

     You pity not the state, nor the remembrance of his most sovereign name.

6. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.

Synonyms

• autonomous
• supreme

Derived terms

• sovereignly
• sovereign citizen
• sovereign state

Translations

Noun

sovereign (plural sovereigns)

1. A monarch; the ruler of a country.
   • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

     No question is to be made but that the bed of the Missisippi[sic] belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.

2. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
3. A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
4. A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
5. Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
6. (Britain, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
   • 2004, December 11, "Birkenhead, Merseyside" BBC Voices recording (0:06:52)

     No, someone who wears loads of sovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’.

Hyponyms

• (monarch): king, queen

Derived terms

• sovereignty

Descendants

• ? Irish: sabhran
• ? Russian: ??????? (soveren)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: sòbharan
• ? Welsh: sofren

Translations

See also

• half sovereign

Verb

sovereign (third-person singular simple present sovereigns, present participle sovereigning, simple past and past participle sovereigned)

1. (transitive) To rule over as a sovereign.

Anagrams

• Rovignese, virogenes